Giovanni Battista Piranesi : die poetische Wahrheit Radierungen
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi : die poetische Wahrheit Radierungen
Gerd Hatje, [1999]
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi Radierungen
Piranesi
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Venetian architect, Piranesi, went to Rome in 1740 and became the recorder of Roman antiquities in hundreds of etchings. His feelings for the poetry of ruins, his romantic archaeology, and his dramatic exploitation of the contrasts of light and shade possible in etching exerted great influence on 18th-century architecture. His views of ancient Rome are expressions of his pronounced painterly and poetic imagination, with his oeuvre being distinguished by his unusual architectural visions and detailed archaeological works. They show ghostly, eerily empty and menacing buildings that tower up and appear like visions of dungeons. His most famous work, the "Vedute", formed the basis of the mental image of Rome possessed by thousands who never went there. This volume of complete etchings documents 695 engravings by Piranesi. The annotations, in which he displayed his talent as one of the most brilliant writers of the 18th-century, have been transcribed in this work.
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